Alla WATTEAU, Louis-Joseph s Oljemålningar


Vilja ID Bild  Oljemålningar Från A to Z       Information 
97709 Suicida per amor  Suicida per amor   circa 1892 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 132 x 180 cm cyf
7171 The Storm21  The Storm21   Oil on canvas Mus??e des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes

WATTEAU, Louis-Joseph
French Painter, 1731-1798 Nephew of Antoine Watteau. He trained in Paris with Jacques Dumont, and at the Academie Royale, where in 1751 he was awarded first prize for painting. In 1755 he settled in Lille; there he became assistant teacher at the school of drawing, but was dismissed, because of what was considered a scandalous innovation, the introduction of study of the nude, as in Paris. He then returned to Valenciennes for some 15 years; around 1770 he became assistant teacher to Louis-Jean Gueret, director of the school of drawing in Lille, whom he succeeded in the post in 1778. On Watteau's initiative, an annual Salon, at which he himself exhibited regularly, was established in Lille in 1773.



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